The Seventh Trumpet is at once an Intelligence Report
and a Spiritual
Commentary upon the Events and Affairs of our Times.It is intended
to be an ongoing Educational Curriculum based on the subterranean
streams of economic, social, political, spiritual and historical facts,
little known to the general population.

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SCARLET
AND THE
SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON,

Part 1

"One of the seven Angels, who had the bowls [of judgement],
came and spoke to me. He said, Come and I will show you the Verdict of the
Great Whore, who sits on many waters - With whom the Kings of Earth have
committed fornication, causing all those who live on Earth to become drunk,
by the wine of her fornication.

Then he carried me in spirit into the Wilderness, where I saw a woman seated
on a red beast, which had seven heads and ten horns and many blasphemous
names." - Revelation of St. John, 17:1-3

Beloved
friends, forgive me for not publishing an issue this past month, as I was
on a trip, traveling through several states and three foreign countries.
During my travels, my mind kept returning to this passage because of various
reports I was seeing on T.V. and in the newspapers. In this passage, we
have two entities: a woman and a dragon. But the beast is said to have ‘seven
heads’ and ‘ten horns’.

MYSTERY
OF THE TEN HORNS REVEALED

Many
of us remember the flamboyant character, Herbert W. Armstrong, who spoke
to us from several radio and television stations, telling us that these
10 horns would be ten nations of a Revived Roman Empire or in other words
Europe.

But events have proven that hypothesis to be in error. As I traveled, my
mind also went back to a series of articles that I, myself, wrote in THE
STANDARD, between 1972 and 1974, in which I exposed various secret organizations,
that were already working to foist a NEW WORLD CONSTITUTION
upon us.

Please bear with me for quoting from the distilled version of those articles;

"As
I pointed out in those articles, the United States has already been divided
into ten Regional governments, which administer almost all government and
bureaucratic services, including the I.R.S.

The World likewise has also been divided into Ten World ‘Kingdoms’ but for
publicity purposes, they are now being called ‘Regions’.

In those articles, I published maps drawn up by the Club of Rome and other
groups, who are feverishly working to establish World Government. They are:

Kingdom
1 is the United States & Canada (and I added a caveat that

NAFTA
may align Mexico with Kingdom 1)

Kingdom
2 is Europe and the Scandinavian countries

Kingdom
3 is Japan

Kingdom
4 is Australia and South Africa

Kingdom
5 is composed of all the countries of the former Soviet Union.

Remember
Daniel’s dream of a great image, representing the kingdoms of the world,
at the end of the Age, which had ten toes made from iron and clay?!

MYSTERY
OF THE SEVEN HEADS EXPLAINED

The
question now becomes, how can there be ten ‘horns’ and only seven ‘heads’?
The seven ‘heads’ are today, what is commonly called the group of seven,

‘G-7’,
the world's most industrialized nations. They are Great Britain, Italy,
Canada, the United States, France, Germany and Japan.

This group began as six nations -meeting at Rambouillet, France in November
1975, consisting of France, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan and
Italy, but were joined by Canada at the San Juan, Puerto Rico Summit of
1976. And, as you can see, four of these nations actually belong to Kingdom
2.

KINGDOM
2 - EUROPE

GROWING
MILITARILY AND ECONOMICALLY

The
European Union which originated in 1958 via the Maastrict Treaty now possesses
15 member countries who are uniting militarily and economically to replace
the declining Dollar with the Euro and the armed forces of the United States
with their own military forces. The Euro will

be
needed as the U.S. is being ‘cashiered’.

DATE:
February 11, 2001

MEDIA:
N.Y. Times

ARTICLE:
Europe’s Shifting Role Poses Challenge to U.S.

BY-LINE:
ROGER COHEN

BERLIN,
Feb. 10 -- A little phrase from Rudolph Scharping, the German defense minister,
recently caused American military commanders to shudder:

"As
the European Union develops its security and defense policy and becomes
an independent actor, we must determine our security policy with Russia,
our biggest neighbor."

The
specter of Europe -- and particularly its central power, Germany -- adopting
a more independent stance from NATO and paying close heed to Russia is chilling
for the United States...

...The
15-member European Union, long a mere trade bloc ultimately protected by
American power, has begun to develop into a grouping with its own serious
military and strategic ambitions.

DATE:
January 31, 2001

MEDIA:
London Telegraph

ARTICLE:
General admits EU army will be rival to NATO

BY-LINE:
Evans-PritchardTHE European Union's Rapid Reaction Force will start to compete with
NATO once it acquires a full range of strategic military assets,the
head of the EU's new military staff said yesterday.
Major-General Graham Messervy-Whiting said the force of 60,000 would undertake
humanitarian tasks at first but later would progress to more muscular operations
similar to those carried out by NATO troops in Bosnia.

The British general said in a seminar at the Center for European Policy
Studies in Brussels: "Initially, we would in no way want to compete with
NATO."

The
EU force is designed for deployment within 60 days for up to a year, anywhere
in the world, backed by 400 aircraft and a naval force - a commitment that
could tie down a quarter of a million men once rotation is taken into account.
It will be fully operational by 2003, but could start carrying out limited
missions much sooner.

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THE
RISING CLOUT OF THE EURO - FIFTEEN TO BECOME FIFTY

So
far only twelve of the fifteen countries that make up EU, will participate
fully in the unified European currency, the Euro, by the spring of 2002.
The twelve countries are: Austria, Belgium, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal
and Spain.They combine to make a population of roughly 300+
million people, slightly larger than the United States.

The
Euro is the second most widely used currency by global financial markets,
(stock exchanges, banks, underwriters, etc.). More than 30 nations stretching
from Iceland to Estonia to West Africa use the Euro to calculate exchange
rates, (the value of foreign currency).

Beginning
on Jan 1, 2002 the Euro will become publicly available in the twelve participating
countries in notes and coins and two months later, on March 1, 2002, the
national currencies of these twelve nations will become defunct.

The
Nice Treaty succeeds Maastrict, the treaty that originated the European
Union and acts as the governing document that provides the means for the
Union to expand

(i.e. the inclusion of the potential 12 new Eastern European members. Ratification
of the new members was expected to be cursory. 14 of the existing EU members
designated non-voting authority to established procedure. Only
Ireland made inclusion subject to a popular vote of the people.

Another
12 potential new Eastern European members wait for admittance and beyond
that group awaits a host of others. The long lost 12 Eastern European brethren;
Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia,
Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The new members, all Eastern European based, added to the current 15 members
would boost membership in the Union to 27, more than halfway to the desired
50.

By including supposed sovereign democracies like Monaco and others, the
Scandinavian nations, making accommodations for the Vatican and the sprawling
Russia somewhat surprisingly lifts the number of potential members of the
European Union to 50, a figure identical to the number of states in the
U.S.

With the onset of the common currency, the Euro, and the completion of various
necessary inter-governmental procedures, EU officials expected the 50 member
Union to materialize by mid-century, 2050.

The
march forwards to a powerful, united European Union, composed ultimately
of 50 member states is being slowed and on the horizon, in the short term
we see a weakened Union. The after effects of Ireland's vote have thrown
the continent into turmoil.

The
intermediate goal is to have the world divided into three zones - the Americas,
Europe & Africa, and the Orient - using three currencies until the world
is able to arrive at one currency.

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THE
MYSTERY OF THE GREAT WHORE BECOMES CLEARER

"There
is a sense in which this woman represents commercialism, being tied, as
it is, to the great International Banks. The eminent Russian writer, Tolstoy,
jut before his death in 1910, told his daughter Anastasia of a vision which
he had just had.

She in turn wrote it down as follows: ‘This is a revelation of events of
a universal character, which must shortly come to pass. Their spiritual
outlines are now before my eyes. I see floating upon the sea of human fate,
the huge silhouette of a nude woman. She is - with her beauty, her poise,
her smile, her jewels - a super Venus.

Nations rush madly after her, each of them eager to attract her especially.
But she, like an eternal courtesan, flirts with all. In her hair - an ornament
of diamonds and rubies - is engrave her name: COMMERCIALISM. As alluring and bewitching as she seems, much
destruction and agony follow in her wake . . .’" - P.425, Forbidden Truths
Revealed

The
poorer nations of Earth, or the Third World as they are commonly called,
would understand Tolstoy’s vision, because they were the recipients of vast
loans which now demand their entire nation's Gross National Product just
to pay the interest. Many of these countries have already defaulted in their
payments.

Consider the following news item.

NEWS
BRIEF: "G-7 Presses Large Banks On Bailouts",

by
Michele M. Phillips and Bob Davis, and Pamela Druckerman,

The
Wall Street Journal, November 2, 1998, page A27.

"The
world's seven major economic powers are ratcheting up pressure on private
banks and investors to chip in for international bailouts, including the
rescue now being assembled for Brazil. In statements Friday, the Group of
Seven industrialized nations endorsed the creation of a preapproved credit
line for nations in danger of being hit by investor panic ...

"The
G-7 leaders, finance ministers and central bankers stressed that the private
sector must join the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and wealthy
nations in funding the plan ... ' ‘the private sector ... needs to be appropriately
involved in crisis management and resolution', the G-7 finance ministers
and central bankers said."

MEDIA:
BBC Business

ARTICLE:
European Central Bank

BY-LINE:
Staff

The
new European Central Bank is based in Frankfurt, Germany’s financial capital.The European Central Bank, (ECB) sets monetary policy for all European
Union countries in a single currency. It is the successor of the European
Monetary Institute --set up five years ago to oversee the transitional stage
of monetary union.

The
ECB works with national central banks within what is called the European
System of Central banks. Its key tasks are to:

Define
and implement monetary policy, such as setting interest rates

Maintain
price stability

Support
economic policies of member states as long as they do not affect price
stability

Conduct
foreign exchange operations and look after the official foreign reserves
of the member states;

Promote
smooth operation of payment systems that link banks

Europe’s
new central bank has exclusive rights to authorize the issue of banknotes
within the community but it will share the actual role and process banknotes
with national central banks. Member states taking part
in monetary union are only allowed to issue coins. The ECB has to
approve the volume of money issued.

The
ECB is regarded by many in the banking profession as a double of Germany’s
Bundesbank-and it is actually based in Frankfurt, Germany’s financial
capital.This was the original home of the Rothschild family, if you will
remember.

WHO
AND WHAT ARE THE IMF AND THE WORLD BANK?

The
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have been empowered by the
governments of the supposedly wealthy north

(the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany, France, Canada, and Italy -- the "Group
of 7) to impose economic austerity policies in the countries of the so-called
"Third World" or "global South". These two institutions have been used by
the International Bankers to lure the Third World countries into using debt-based
money systems, complete with Central Banks and Babylonian bondage.

Many countries are using their entire annual exports just to pay the interest
on loans made to them by these institutions.

When it comes time to ‘cashier’ an entire country, in other words, to ‘repossess’
all their wealth, then the tax payers in the United States are often called
upon to bail such-and-such country out of debt. Any one who has the nerve
to openly criticize the International Bankers, usually gets punished.

EUROPE
CRACKS DOWN ON FREE SPEECH

Wed
Mar 7, 2001 -- The European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European
Union can lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and
of leading figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European
precedents on civil liberties.

The EU's top court found that the European Commission was entitled to sack
Bernard Connolly, a British economist dismissed in 1995 for writing a critique
of European monetary integration entitled ‘The Rotten Heart of Europe’

The
ruling stated that the commission could restrict dissent in order to "protect
the rights of others" and punish individuals who "damaged the institution's
image and reputation".

The case has wider implications for free speech that could extend to EU
citizens who do not work for the Brussels bureaucracy. The
court called the Connolly book "aggressive, derogatory and insulting", taking
particular umbrage at the author's suggestion that Economic and Monetary
Union was a threat to democracy, freedom and "ultimately peace".

However,
it dropped an argument put forward three months ago by the advocate-general,
Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, which implied that Mr Connolly's criticism of
the EU was akin to extreme blasphemy, and therefore not protected speech.

Mr Connolly, who has been told to pay the European Commission's legal costs,
said the proceedings did not amount to a fair hearing. He said: "We're back
to the Star Chamber and Acts of Attainder: the rights of defendants are
not respected or guaranteed in any way; the offence of seditious libel has
been resurrected."

THE
NATIONS BEGIN TO HATE THE WHORE

DATE:
6-16-01

MEDIA:
The Guardian

ARTICLE:
EU leaders fear wrath of the people

BY-LINE:
Ian Black and Michael White in Gothenburg, Sweden Europe's leaders were
last night forced to consider slowing down their "great debate" about the
future of the continent in the face of growing evidence of
"a widespread sense of disconnection" between the EU and its citizens.

As hundreds of anti globalization rioters offered tangible proof of alienation
in violent clashes on the streets of Gothenburg, the 15 heads of government
attending the Swedish summit were warned that ordinary people remain frustrated
by their remoteness and lack of democratic accountability.

Mr
Ahern told colleagues that Ireland's shock rejection of the Nice treaty,
which paves the way for EU expansion up to 27 members, underlined a "widespread
sense of disconnection" between the union and its people.

"There is frustration at what is seen as an absence of clarity, openness
and responsiveness in how the union goes about its business," he added.
"There is a real and urgent need to focus on how we make the union more
meaningful to our citizens and on how its democratic accountability can
be strengthened."

And
it prompted Tony Blair and fellow leaders to admit to second thoughts as
to whether the time is right to launch a potentially divisive debate about
the future constitutional direction of Europe.

Mr Blair denounced the violence in which up to 37 people, including 10 police
officers, were injured. "The protests are a complete outrage. To result
in this violence is not just entirely wrong, but also completely misguided."

Gerhard
Schröder, the German chancellor and his foreign minister, Joschka Fischer,
last year sparked a wide debate about the future of Europe as it enlarges
in advance of new treaty talks in 2004. But Mr Schröder appeared to be backing
down in the aftermath of the Irish vote, which some now fear could come
to prove as difficult as the Danish rejection of the Maastricht treaty in
1992.

"The debate about the final shape of Europe must not be conducted under
time pressure," he said, acknowledging Dublin's point that was important
to involve the wider public in planning the EU's future. "Its an extremely
important debate," Mr Person said. "We have to move closer to our electorates."

The
Belgians, who take over the EU presidency from Sweden next month, are due
to launch the debate over the future shape of Europe. "The EU should not
proceed too fast," said the Austrian chancellor, Wolfgang Schüssel, who
has experienced voter alienation in the shape of Joerg Heider's far-right
Freedom party. "Nice has not yet been ratified and we are already talking
about new goals."

KINGDOM
10

CHINA CRACKS DOWN ON INTERNET USERS

By
Reuters
June 12, 2001, 1:00 p.m. PT

BEIJING--The
soft glow of computer screens lights the faces of hundreds of students and
20-somethings crammed into the Feiyu Internet cafe near Peking University,
24 hours a day. The basement cafe is one of roughly 1,000 in Beijing, where
young Chinese can anonymously log onto the Internet and browse any site
they fancy, such as news or sports--or even banned pornography sites.

To
Beijing, these cafes are a dangerous window into an electronic world beyond
the Communist Party's control, and in April the government launched the
second major clampdown against the popular venues in just over one year.

Internet
cafes offer people in China a way to get online and speak up without identifying
themselves, making cyberspace almost impossible to regulate, despite a slew
of high-profile arrests in China since March.

"Thanks
to Web cafes, they are completely unable to control me," said Sun Hang,
a software programmer in Beijing. "In Internet cafes, if I wanted to say
something on the Internet, nobody could find me."

Cybercafes
create a layer of anonymity between their patrons and police in China, where
home and office Internet connections are easily identified be their Internet
protocol (IP) address.

"It's
very difficult, to be honest, to control by identity," said Edward Zeng,
CEO of e-commerce and Web cafe group Sparkice, who rose to fame in 1998
when U.S. President Bill Clinton visited his shop in Shanghai.

That
anonymity is important because if China's content laws are broken on a personal
home page or a message board of a major Web site, authorities are likely
to trace it back to its source, said a Web executive in China who asked
not to be named.

The
Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the State Council Information Office,
the State Security Ministry--China's secret police--and local police all
monitor Web sites looking for "hot button" issues: Taiwan, Tibet--which
China annexed in 1950--and the banned spiritual group Falun Gong, she said.

Over
20 percent of the more than 20 million Web surfers in China--where most
people cannot afford a PC--use cybercafes, an official survey said this
year.

In
April, the government banned Internet cafes from residential buildings and
areas near government offices and schools.

Police
said a new round of inspections of the cafes across China for evidence of
illegal access to banned Web sites or subversive messages were a precondition
for renewing licenses.

Wang
Yuesheng, who owns 24 of the Feiyu brand Web cafes in Beijing, said police
raid his no-frills cafes twice every month to search browsers for evidence
of having visited Falun Gong Internet sites.

"Since
March, government offices have boosted their checks of these political cases,"
said Frank Lu of the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights
and Democracy.

In
May, China charged four intellectuals with subversion after they were detained
in March for using the Internet to organize a discussion group on political
reform, the group said.

Earlier
last month in Shandong Province, Wang Jinbo was arrested for "libeling the
police on the Internet," the group said.

According
to the rights group, China arrested at least two others last month for political
statements on the Internet.

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We
in the United States take the freedom to express ourselves via the Internet
for granted. But the day hastens when we may no longer be able to share
our values with others. If you have enjoyed this issue of THE SEVENTH TRUMPET,
forward it on to a friend.

Until
next time, may God bless you and yours, Jeffrey Brackeen

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